<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Perhaps it's the networking OS for the azure switch. </div><div><br><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux_repeat_microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux_repeat_microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux</a></div><div><br></div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Sep 18, 2015, at 9:47 PM, B.S. <<a href="mailto:bs27975@yahoo.ca">bs27975@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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Interesting.<br>
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Thank you for the link.<br>
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MS going after Red Hat's, SuSe's, and hardware vendor's lunch?<br>
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The article notes: "We don’t yet know when and if Microsoft will release the source code of the project and which licence they will use for it; the Linux kernel is licenced under GNU GPLv2, so it has to be a compatible licence."<br>
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Is that entirely true? I get if they link in / copy source, but if I download, say, a driver or other software from a 3rd party after the fact (of install), does the GPL (one must make source code available) apply?<br>
(vs, say, just call, or use APIs?)<br>
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Guess maybe it must be, else they must provide binaries for every possibility. Maybe not - hardware vendors only warrant on certain OS's, e.g. RHEL not CentOS. Hmmm.<br>
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[To be fair ... upon reading Joe's message I had to make sure the date wasn't April 1.]<br>
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> From: Joseph Wennechuk <<a href="mailto:youcanreachmehere@Hotmail.com">youcanreachmehere@Hotmail.com</a>><br>
>To: <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a> <br>
>Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 9:31 PM<br>
>Subject: [kwlug-disc] Microsoft launches a Linux powered operating system - Linux Veda<br>
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>Anyone have more details, thoughts, comments on this?<br>
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><a href="http://www.linuxveda.com/2015/09/18/microsoft-launches-a-linux-powered-operating-system">http://www.linuxveda.com/2015/09/18/microsoft-launches-a-linux-powered-operating-system</a><br>
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